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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics - Page 453
1796
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the lirst tiudden emotion was fortified bv the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to mnke her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains...
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A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1864 - 374 pages
...pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners ; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there in the mountains of Burgundy,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first riU'ffk'ii emotion was ftruficj by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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The Galaxy, Volume 17

William Conant Church - 1874 - 876 pages
...without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. 1 passed some happy days there in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 12

Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...her manners. The young elcvc was fascinated. ' I saw her,' he says, ' and loved.' His ' first sudden emotion' was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. His advances were encouraged. From mere meetings at Lausanne, it came to formal visits at her father's...
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Half-hours with the Best Letter-writers and Autobiographers ..., Volume 2

Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 pages
...pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners ; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian

Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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An Elocutionary Manual: With an Introductory Essay on the Study of ...

1875 - 448 pages
...pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners ; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22; Volume 85

1875 - 822 pages
...conversation, pure in sentiment and elegant in manners ; and the first sudden emotion was justified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq

Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge...acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her...
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